Film Friday: "Psycho" (1960)
Since Janet Leigh's birthday was on Monday, t his week on "Film Friday" I am bringing you her most iconic film, for which she received her only Academy Award nomination. Theatrical release poster Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho (1960) tells the story of a Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), a real estate secretary from Phoenix, Ari zona who is tired of having to sneak away during lunch breaks to meet her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), the owner of a hardware store in California. One afternoon, her boss, George Lowery (Vaughn Taylor), asks her to take $40,000 in cash to the bank for deposit . I nstead of going to the bank, h owever, Marion decides to steal the money and leave for California to start a new life with Sam. Trading her car for one with California plates to elude the police, Marion takes a wrong turn during a rainstorm and ends up at a desolate motel, where the young proprietor, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), invites her to dinner after she ch...